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Here is a comprehensive list of middle school apps thanks to the University of Michigan:
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app is a fun puzzle game that asks you to guess a word based on the pictures you see.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app allows independent discovery of an unknown spelling or a quick check on an uncertain word.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 7.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app’s drag-and-drop technology helps make algebra easier by allowing you to shuffle the terms between sides of the equations.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. Also compatible with Android devices.
Use this app to remember all the tasks you need to do and make sure you get them done. Features include cloud sync, speech recognition, alerts, notes, auto complete, and more!
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 7.0 or later.
AppWriter is comprised of text-to-speech software, context based word suggestions, and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to help with reading and writing.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
AudioBooks allows you to listen to books. Some features include high-quality human recordings and access to all types of reading material.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Blio makes e-reading easy with text-to-speech, highlighting words as you read, looking up unknown words or phrases, and being visually friendly to suit your needs.
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Compatible with Android devices 1.5 and up.
Cool Reader is an eBook reader that supports multiple eBook formats. The app has a text-to-speech function and other customizable features.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
This app provides a set of therapeutic hand exercises to improve fine motor skills and handwriting readiness in children and adults.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app includes nearly 2 million easily accessible words. You can view definitions and synonyms with dictionary.com and thesaurus.com, with no internet connection required.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
Dragon Dictation is a voice recognition app that allows the user to see the text generated through speaking instead of typing. It can be used with popular social networking applications.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This is an app that wants to satisfy all of your electronic display needs. You can use it to create your own special electronic displays, including cultivating your child’s imagination as a toy or picture board.
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Requires iOS 3.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
The Yeti Master will explain the signs of dyslexia as the user climbs the mountain and plays the yeti games. Each game tests working memory, phonological awareness, processing speed, and visual and auditory memory.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.1 or later.
This app is an easy-to-use interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere.
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Compatible with Android devices 1.6 and up.
This app contains a bunch of different tools for notetaking including a unit converter, a BMI calculator, a random password generator, note attachments such as PDF, word, and powerpoint, text-to-speech, and many more!
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
This app provides users with over 25,000 classic pieces of literature for free! Your reader is sure to find something enjoyable!
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app helps users explore facts around the world. It features a spinning globe that spits out random fascinating facts.
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Compatible with Android devices 2.0 and up.
Go Read is a part of Bookshare, where you can access one of the largest online libraries. This app also has text-to-speech capabilities and is especially made for people with reading impairments.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 7.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
With over 150,000 words, Howjsay is the world’s largest English pronunciation dictionary. It uses a real human voice for audio pronunciation and keeps track of your word lookup history.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.1 or later.
This app is a great brainstorming tool. It helps you visually organize ideas quickly and easily and allows you to share them with others.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 7.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Idea Sketch lets you easily draw a diagram (mind map, concept map, or flow chart), convert it to a text outline, and vice versa. It can be used to brainstorm new ideas, illustrate concepts, make lists and outlines, plan presentations, create organizational charts, and more.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
Developed by CAST, MathScaled contains several balance-scale based math puzzles. Users have to place different shapes on the scales to balance them out, without knowing the weights of the shapes. The app can also track your progress.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
Developed by CAST, MathSquared contains several grid-based math puzzles of varying difficulty to help teach basic math operations. Users can develop their logical thinking and reasoning skills and receive progress reports along the way.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
iWordQ helps struggling readers and writers through text-to-speech capabilities, text highlighting, and much more.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
Jumbline is a word puzzle that challenges your speed, agility, pattern recognition, and spelling prowess as you try and find all the possible words within a set of letters. It includes a built-in dictionary.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app will give users access to millions of downloadable books, newspapers, magazines, and PDF’s that wil encourage reading.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 3.2 or later.
This app provides a fun way to overcome common letter reversals such as b’s and d’s. The app’s activities teach left from right and allows users to practice what they learned by practicing their letter discrimination skills.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This fun, interactive game is a great way to teach kids the difference between different parts of speech.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app offers voice search to let you look up a word without having to spell it. It includes a thesaurus, example sentences, Word of the Day, and is a great reference tool.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. Also compatible with Android devices 2.3 and up and web browsers on desktops and laptops.
This cloud-based tool lets students create mind maps to structure their thoughts, prepare reports, summarize books, study for exams, and much more. It’s simple and intuitive, offers many export options (Word, PDF, PowerPoint etc.), and features a built-in presentation mode.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.1 or later.
Notetaker HD handles all of your handwritten notes, diagrams, and drawings in one place. You can annotate PDF files, shrink text to fit on the screen, and customize how your notes are organized.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 7.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app allows you to create, edit, and view documents. It automatically zooms in on text while you type and zooms back out when you’re done, so it makes writing and editing easy.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
PaperPort Notes uses Dragon Dictate power to act as a digital note-taking tool. You can use it to combine documents, web content, audio, and typed text as well as handwritten notes into a single document.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
This app aims to help you with all your document needs. It can save documents to PDF, edit and flatten PDFs, convert text-to-speech, convert images to text, transfer files with cloud storage devices, highlight and annotated PDFs, and can quickly open large files.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app is a fun, effective phonics recognition game that provides a complete picture of the phonograms needed to read and spell.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 7.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Prizmo can read scanned documents to you; simply take a picture of the document with your phone, and Prizmo will read it aloud. You can also share the documents between devices or through cloud computing.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.1.3 or later.
Read 2 Me lets you import .txt files and uses text-to-speech to read them aloud to you. You can easily bookmark important material, and there are many additional features for easy reading.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
Read2Go uses text-to-speech to help you read and comprehend books. With a Bookshare membership, you can browse, download, and read books, and you can customize reading speed, font, font size, and more.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
Reading Trainer will help you improve your reading speed and mental capacity with fun exercises. The app uses multiple reading techniques, and you can easily record and track your progress.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 3.1.2 or later.
This app teaches grade appropriate Dolch words (the 220 words that appear most frequently in reading) by showing each word, speaking it aloud, and tracking your progress.
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Compatible with web browsers on desktops, laptops, and iPad.
Shape Math uses pictures and shapes to help you do simple mathematic equations, calculate tips at a restaurant, or do mental math.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. Similar app compatible with Android devices 3.1 and up.
This app is an electronic white board that allows you to write drafts, show models, write, draw pictures, demonstrate your thoughts in meetings, and many other useful things!
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
Sound Literacy is an instructional tool and resource for teaching phonemic awareness, phonological processing, the alphabetic principle, and morphemic awareness.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 3.2 or later.
This 3D app helps individuals practice every sound in the English language with detailed animations that demonstrate the correct positioning of the tongue, lips, and mouth.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 7.0 or later.
This powerful app can not only help improve spelling, but it has word prediction and auto-completion features, text-to-speech with word highlighting, a built-in dictionary, and much more.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later.
This app is a combination dictionary and spell checker, so you can make sure your e-mails, papers, and other important documents are error-free.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app is a fun way to create spelling lists and spelling bees, It’s perfect for learning SAT words, managing your kid’s weekly words list, or mastering words that give you trouble.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app allows you to type in a word phonetically (based on how it sounds) and it will come up with the actual spelling of the word. It also provides definitions to help you understand the meaning of the word.
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Compatible with Android devices 2.3.3 and up.
This app teaches you how to spell thousands of words with clear audio clips and increasing difficulty.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
This app contains over 13,000 words at 10 different difficulty levels and works just like the spelling bee! There are also options to practice spelling or take spelling tests before taking the challenge.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Talk to Me speaks words as you type them, and the words appear on every screen, no matter what you’re doing! There are many customizable features, including size of text and speed of reading.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Talking Scientific Calculator can read numbers, answers, and formulas aloud to you. It has two entry modes, and the entire app is accessible to VoiceOver users.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.1 or later.
Toontastic allows kids to draw, animate, and share their own custom cartoons. Just hit “Record” and tell a story while making the characters and other cartoon assets move. When finished, share the cartoon on ToonTube.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app uses word prediction and has a sophisticated spelling error model to help you focus on the content of your writing. Typ-O is able to identify the most common spelling mistakes and will often suggest words.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
This app helps you learn multiplication visually by displaying graphically rich multiplication tables.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This text-to-speech app imports content from various sources and reads it aloud (web pages, PDF files, Word documents, PowerPoints, and more). It integrates with Dropbox, Instapaper, and Pocket.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Voro is an original and engaging puzzle game. Exercise both sides of your brain while you clear all the tiles by dragging them into clusters of the same color but keep in mind that the geometry is not orthogonal.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Web Reader uses text-to-speech to read web pages, blogs, and other online content aloud.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Word Dynamo combines with Dictionary.com’s entire word library to help students master word learning. It includes different learning modes, such as audio, flashcards, and definition matching.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app presents learning in small bites with complementary and mutually reinforcing parts including a list of commonly confused words pairs, an incisive explanation, a quote, and a quiz.
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Compatible with Android devices 2.1 and up.
This app can help you build communication skills. It can teach you new words, how the words are properly used in context, and it can pronounce the words for you. There is even a fun, challenging game included.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
Writing Prompts helps make writing more fun. It provides a variety of scene elements, words, sketches, colors, genres, and writing types, allowing you to make your writing more imaginative.